Handbook of the Birds of the World; Vol 16 Tanagers to New World Blackbirds

Description

This is the last in the series and covers the last four families of the series, including two of the largest, the Tanagers and the Buntings and New World Sparrows, along with the cardinals and the New World Blackbirds.

Covers the families of New World vultures, osprey, hawks & eagles, secretarybird, caracaras & falcons, megapodes, chachalacas, guans & curassows, turkeys, grouse, New World quails, partridges & pheasants, and guineafowl. There are detailed family accounts, followed by concise species accounts with distribution maps.

Covers the following families of the order passeriformes: Family Eurylaimidae (Broadbills); Family Philepittidae (Asities); Family Pittidae (Pittas); Family Furnariidae (Ovenbirds); Family Dendrocolaptidae (Woodcreepers); Family Thamnophilidae (Typical Antbirds); Family Formicariidae (Ground-antbirds); Family Conopophagidae (Gnateaters); Family Rhinocryptidae (Tapaculos).

Covers the following families: Family Cotingidae (Cotingas); Family Pipridae (Manakins); Family Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers); Family Acanthisittidae (New Zealand Wrens); Family Atrichornithidae (Scrub-birds); Family Menuridae (Lyrebirds); Family Alaudidae (Larks); Family Hirundinidae (Swallows); Family Motacillidae (Pipits and Wagtails).

Covers Order Passeriformes, family Ploceidae (Weavers), family Viduidae (Whydahs and Indigobirds), family Estrildidae (Waxbills), family Vireonidae (Vireos), family Fringillidae (Finches), family Drepanididae (Hawaiian Honeycreepers), family Peucedramidae (Olive Warbler), family Parulidae (New World Warblers).

Are the birds of paradise the most beautiful birds of all? Are the crows and jays the most intelligent? Volume 14 covers these families together with the popular and attractive groups of starlings, bowerbirds, drongos, bush-shrikes, vangas, sparrows and others. 50 colour plates, over 500 colour photographs, 484 distribution maps.

This special volume covers and illustrates all species that are new to the series, 57 in total, with texts, plates and distribution maps in typical HBW format. Also, in response to the many requests from subscribers over the years, the special volume includes a global index to the collection, an indispensable and useful tool which will enable users to quickly find the specific species they are looking for in the more than 12,500 pages of the 16 volumes.

Here in one volume is a synopsis of the diversity of all birds. Published between the two volumes of the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Bird Families of the World distills the voluminous detail of the 17-volume Handbook of Birds of the World into a single book. Based on the latest systematic research and summarizing what is known about the life history and biology of each group, this volume will be the best single-volume entry to avian diversity available.